VISION: Distributed Systems and Communication in Automotive, Mobile, and Multi­Computing

Today’s and - more dramatically - tomorrow’s microelectronic systems migrate towards highly interconnected “systems of systems” resulting in a growing degree of complexity and interaction. An increasing number of subsystems are involved in providing a specific system function, and more and more system functions are sharing a heterogeneous network of distributed resources. In this context, interaction becomes the most critical challenge of the design process: With today’s system design methods and tools, a design of distributed systems with highest demands on flexibility, reliability, fault tolerance and real-time behavior cannot be done in an economical way, which will limit innovation in the near future.

VISION faces these challenges and addresses the design of distributed microelectronic systems using a holistic view of the system and its embedding environment. This is supported by a global modeling concept which provides early model-based system integration, automated determination of an appropriate com-munication topology and network architecture as well as seam-less integration into verification and implementation processes for highly interconnected systems. Thus, VISION provides enabler solutions for the design of tomorrow’s advanced distributed systems in automotive, mobile communication and multicomputing.

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